Andrew Bond writes:
This is a feature of CIFS as designed by Microsoft - it is a stateful protocol, while NFS is stateless.
Ah yes. That would be the same "feature" that made SysVr3's RFS so popular and long-lived. :-)
The same situation applies if you lose your connection to an NT server.
And that only happens once or twice a week, what with NT's long uptimes.
The use of emulation software is not a high performance one, and requires other compromises.
But the use of NT Domains along with Unix creates even bigger headaches. Just try to sync /etc/passwd with NT authentication. Maybe LDAP will fix this?
After 5 years of occasionally needing to tie NT boxes into Unix networks, I still find that the only answer is to minimize the number of NT servers. My happiness approaches acceptable levels as the number of NT boxes (especially servers) approaches zero.
NFS on an NT workstation is workable and a Good Idea.
-bmw